The inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of the little boy Tong Wing, a pupil at the Diocesan Home and Orphanage, was brought to a conclusion on the 26th inst. A number of witnesses were examined, who proved conclusively that the Ind had a fall and struck his head and mee against a table, and on the other hand no proof was forthcoming to show that the tutor Mr. Ralphs (who was stated by the deceased to have struck him on the head with a ruler) had ever struck the boy with stick or ruler, though he had slapped him with his hand. - The Coroner summed up the evidence, and the jury, after a minute's private consultation, unanimously returned a verdict of accidental death, the result of ofall." Whilst I have every reason to believe that this verdict is a just one, and that Mr. Ralphs is in-cent of causing the boy injury, yet I hope the incident may serve as a caution to masters not even to box the ears of their pupils.
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